Born in the sixties in North America, Stephen Hunt is a genre
writer usually residing in Spain and the UK.

Before
embarking on a career in publishing - magazines,
newspapers and books - Stephen went to University
in the UK, getting a BA (Hons) in Marketing,
followed by two years of study at the London
Institute (Saint Martins, the London College
of Printing, Camberwell College of Arts,
Chelsea College of Art and Design and the
London College of Fashion).

After running the online operations for various large newspaper and
magazine publishers, and the odd bank or two, Stephen found enough success
from writing to become an author full-time.

Stephen's early pieces of short fiction - mainly
'cyberpunk' works - started to appear in the early
1990s in various genre magazines such as ProtoStellar,
Expanse, Roleplayer Independent and Hologram Tales.

His first book, the fantasy novel 'For the Crown and the Dragon',
was published in 1994. It went on to sell thousands of copies in paperback
and got praise in reviews as diverse as Locus, the Guardian, Science
Fiction Chronicle, Arcane, Broadsword and various other newspapers and
genre titles.

The novel and its related short fiction
sparked a sub-genre, flintlock fantasy,
which crosses the tropes of Georgian and
Napoleonic history with the conventions
of the fantasy universe.

His novels are now published by HarperCollins
in the UK alongside their two other fantasy
best-sellers, JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis.
In the USA, Tor publishes Stephen's work.
Check the links page for details of his
various foreign language publishers.

Apart from visiting his relatives in New York and spending time with
his family in the UK and Spain, Stephen enjoys painting, Spanish cooking,
shooting, reading, collecting comics, comic art and pulp works, and
generally nerding about on his PC and Mac.